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Steve Tombs

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The Open University

Criminal Justice and PenologyRegulation and Compliance StudiesCrime, Deviance, and Social ControlCrime, Illicit Activities, and GovernanceCriminal Law and Policy

Steve Tombs works in Criminal Justice and Penology, Regulation and Compliance Studies, Crime, Deviance, and Social Control, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance, Criminal Law and Policy. Recorded institutional associations include The Open University.

269Publications
3,859Citations
30H-index

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously

    2004 · 441 citations

  2. From ‘crime’ to social harm?

    2007 · 217 citations

  3. The Corporate Criminal

    2015 · 199 citations

  4. IDEOLOGY, HEGEMONY, AND EMPIRICISM

    1990 · 185 citations

  5. Class and Health: Research and Longitudinal Data

    1988 · 165 citations

  6. From Social Harm to Zemiology

    2021 · 145 citations

  7. Toxic Capitalism: Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry

    2019 · 133 citations

  8. The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished

    2015 · 101 citations

  9. The Conventionalization of Early Factory Crime

    2005 · 89 citations

  10. Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful

    2003 · 88 citations

  11. Criminal obsessions: Why harm matters more than crime

    2008 · 88 citations

  12. Transcending the deregulation debate? Regulation, risk, and the enforcement of health and safety law in the UK

    2012 · 86 citations

  13. A Deadly Consensus: Worker Safety and Regulatory Degradation under New Labour

    2009 · 78 citations

  14. STATE-CORPORATE SYMBIOSIS IN THE PRODUCTION OF CRIME AND HARM

    2012 · 72 citations

  15. 'Violence', Safety Crimes and Criminology

    2006 · 69 citations

  16. Hazards, Law and Class: Contextualizing the Regulation of Corporate Crime

    1997 · 63 citations

  17. The Myths and Realities of Deterrence in Workplace Safety Regulation

    2013 · 59 citations

  18. Capital, Crime Control and Statecraft in the Entrepreneurial City

    2005 · 56 citations

  19. Social Protection after the Crisis: Regulation without Enforcement

    2016 · 54 citations

  20. The Shifting Imaginaries of Corporate Crime

    2020 · 50 citations

  21. Unmasking the crimes of the powerful : scrutinizing states & corporations

    2003 · 46 citations

  22. For Pragmatism and Politics: Crime, Social Harm and Zemiology

    2018 · 43 citations

  23. ‘How do you get your voice heard when no-one will let you?’ Victimization at work

    2011 · 42 citations

  24. 12. Social harm and zemiology

    2017 · 41 citations

  25. POLICING CORPORATE ‘SKID ROWS’

    1991 · 39 citations

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